Questions tagged [kinit]

Using centralised auth against FreeIPA is working great. In order to use Kerberos SSO when using ssh, scp etc from jumphosts users must initiate their Kerberos tickets first with kinit. I've added this to bashrc for users so that they're prompted…

I'm not sure I understand when & why mapUser is needed. When you generate a keytab with ktpass you can map the Service Principal to a user wit mapUser. You can then kinit to the Service from an other machine using that keytab. When trying the same…

I've a Ubuntu desktop client joined to an Active Directory 2008 R2 domain. I need to use "kinit" command on Linux to determine when a user password will expire. That's my way to go due to other scripts running on system so can't / don't want to…